Hey guys,
Things are a little quiet here at the moment as I am waiting on some interviews and images to come in so I thought I’d post up a little video that was made about 2 years ago after a striking session for some of the juniors I work with at my academy who were looking to develop their skipping for conditioning.
Like all the old school training modalities there is not much that can match skipping for all round fitness.
How many of you use it in your conditioning programme?
Enjoy!
Dave

2010 has not been a bad year for US Brazilian Jiu Jitsu sensation Hillary Williams.
On 11th April 2010 she won gold in her weight category and bronze in the Absolute division at the 2010 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Pan-Am Championships and then, in the same month scooped a bronze at the inaugural women’s event at the Abu Dhabi Pro.
Earlier this month she scooped her biggest win to date by becoming only the second US female Brazilian Ju Jitsu World Champion [after Lana Stefanac in 2009] at the 2010 Mundials in Long …

Interview: David Webb, 13th June 2010
With only a week since the passing of the 2010 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Mundials it would seem fitting for KombatClinic.com to interview yet another world champion from the world of BJJ and get their inside take on how the championship panned out over the course of the 5th & 6th of June (don’t worry that’s coming).
But I decided a long time ago to try and get an interview with the only Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt in Ireland – John Kavanagh.
John is someone I have …

Interview by David Webb, 26th May 2010.

Interview by David Webb, 22nd March 2010
Robson “Robinho” Moura began his training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the age of 10 after his father took him to an academy in his hometown of Teresopolis (a small town in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). His first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teacher was Ailson “Jucao” Brites and Robinho’s Jiu Jitsu skills developed very quickly under his tutelage, competing in his first championships after only 3 months of training he laid the foundations to become a champion very early on.
When his “Jucao” moved …

Interview by David Webb, 3rd March 2010
This week KombatClinic.com has had the pleasure of interviewing yet another legend from the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – Professor Vinicius Magalhães  – a fourth degree black belt under Carlos Gracie Jr. and the Gracie Barra Academy.
Professor Magalhães or “Draculino” as he is better known, is the head instructor of Gracie Barra Texas and the Gracie Barra Belo Horizonte Schools and amongst his students, you will find Mundial winners, Pan-Am champions, national BJJ champions, champion mixed martial artists and grapplers and a total of more than …

Steve Maxwell: Relson Gracie black belt, revolutionary strength and conditioning coach and father to Zak Maxwell (2009 Mundials champion at Brown belt [featherweight], US Open weight Champion, Pan-Am Champion and [Brown belt] Gracie Worlds Absolute Champion. For those of you that are not aware of Steve he is the type of guy always at the cutting edge of the newest martial arts and fitness craze as they first emerge. Starting Jiu Jitsu in the late 1980’s Steve is a former NCAA Division One wrestler and can claim to be Relson …

A beginner’s guide to the centre line hypothesis
Roy Dean, in his DVD ‘Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Purple belt requirements’, spoke of depth of knowledge versus breadth of knowledge and encouraged that rather than attempting to assimilate and amass numerous skill sets, to look deeper and understand the concepts and principles that underpin each skill. In the same vein BJJ Black belt Roy Harris has warned not to become a “collector of techniques” or someone more infatuated with developing flair than actually being able to use basic fundamental skills in ‘live’ randori.
If …

Hey guys,
I thought I’d upload this brief post as it something we are doing at my academy with all the members and thought it might be cool to get some of the readers on board as well – it’s all about the participation!
Here is the challenge: February 2010 – 28 days or 4 weeks (depending on how pedantic you are). For those 28 days we want to create a recorded log of exercise for the entire month from all the readers here on KombatClinic.com. CrossFit WOD’s, Ginastica Natural, Speed/Agility/Quickness sessions, …

Luis “Limao” Heredia is one of a select few. Head Coach at Maui Jiu Jitsu in Hawaii he started Jiu Jitsu aged 14 in his native Brazil, soon afterwards he was granted access to THE most famous of martial arts legacies – the Gracie’s, a student under Master Helio Gracie and his sons, Rickson and Royler his skills were honed on the mats of the famous Gracie Humaita school until he was invited by Rickson to travel to the United States to help spread the word of Gracie Jiu Jitsu.
As …